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NewsPrincess joint MD to leave
Princess Productions joint managing director Conor Baily is to leave the Endemol Shine-backed indie after 17 years.
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NewsBear Grylls returns to CITV
CITV has recommissioned a second series of Bear Grylls’ Survival School despite recent cuts to the channel’s original commissioning budget.
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RatingsApprentice bows out with 6m
SUNDAY: The Apprentice recovered from last year’s worst performing final since 2005 to hook 6m.
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NewsFremantle racks up 20bn YouTube views
Fremantle Media is on track to generated 20 billion YouTube views - more than any other producer, TV network or movie studio worldwide, according to chief executive Cecile Frot-Coutaz.
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RatingsThe Big Life Fix lands 1.3m
WEDNESDAY: BBC2’s life overhaul format The Big Life Fix with Simon Reeve grew its audience, adding 183,000 to its debut last week.
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NewsDragonfly exec joins BBC docs team
Dragonfly executive producer Emma Loach is to join the BBC documentaries team as a replacement for Clare Sillery who has been made head of the division.
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NewsBetty heads up Everest
Betty is to journey to the top of Everest with the helicopter pilots who risk their lives to save stranded climbers facing certain death in a major international Discovery commission.
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Behind The ScenesInside No 9, BBC2
Inside No. 9 producer Adam Tandy talks to George Bevir about creating a working 1970s drama set with period cameras and lighting for the return of the darkly comic anthology series
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NewsMaverick reveals genre plans
Maverick is bidding to become a cross-genre operator, building on the commission of its ambitious Channel 4 specialist factual entertainment format, Escape.
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NewsTelegraph ties with Endemol Shine for VoD push
The Telegraph has launched an online long-form video service stocked with content acquired from Endemol Shine.
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NewsAnna Miralis joins Wall to Wall
Channel 4 documentaries commissioner Anna Miralis has joined Wall to Wall as its head of factual.
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NewsLime Pictures hires E! VP
Lime Pictures has hired E!’s Noah Pollack as its first US executive vice president of non-scripted programming.
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NewsRevamped Coach Trip scores bumper order
Coach Trip has landed a double series recommission from E4 after the 12 Yard format was upgraded from Channel 4’s daytime schedule.
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NewsDisney returns to The Lodge
Zodiak Kids has secured a second series of Disney Channel’s music drama The Lodge. Filming on the 15 x 30-minute show will get underway early next year in Northern Ireland after the first series debuted in September to an audience of 270,000 (2.1%), well ahead of ...
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NewsMidsomer Murders indie boss departs
Company Pictures chief executive Michele Buck is to add Bentley Productions to her remit following the departure of the managing director of the Midsomer Murders indie.
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VideoThe Witness for the Prosecution, BBC1
Mammoth Screen’s adaptation of Agatha Christie’s classic thriller
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NewsBetty hires director of programmes
Discovery’s Helen Hawken is to replace Duncan Coates as Betty’s director of programmes.
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RatingsGogglebox returns to form
FRIDAY: Gogglebox returned to form without competition from I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here – winning the slot in its final 30-minutes.
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NewsCelebs get C5 makeover
John McCririck and Celebrity Big Brother star Lauren Harries are among the celebrities set to receive makeovers as part of a celebrity remake of 5Star’s 100% Hotter.